Anna Jackson is Keeper, Asia Department at the V&A. Masami Yamada is Curator, Asia Department at the V&A

• Introduction -- Creation and Commerce -- Looking Good -- Style and Seduction -- Patterns of Performance -- Male Flamboyance -- Fashioning Life -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Acknowledgements

‘the prints are, it hardly needs saying,marvelous, and those selected are not always the usual suspects.’ Peter Gordon,Asian Review of Books, 24th November2024

Anna Jackson is Keeper, Asia Department at the V&A. Masami Yamada is Curator, Asia Department at the V&A

• Introduction -- Creation and Commerce -- Looking Good -- Style and Seduction -- Patterns of Performance -- Male Flamboyance -- Fashioning Life -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Acknowledgements

‘the prints are, it hardly needs saying,marvelous, and those selected are not always the usual suspects.’ Peter Gordon,Asian Review of Books, 24th November2024

Anna Jackson is Keeper, Asia Department at the V&A. Masami Yamada is Curator, Asia Department at the V&A

• Introduction -- Creation and Commerce -- Looking Good -- Style and Seduction -- Patterns of Performance -- Male Flamboyance -- Fashioning Life -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Acknowledgements

‘the prints are, it hardly needs saying,marvelous, and those selected are not always the usual suspects.’ Peter Gordon,Asian Review of Books, 24th November2024